Quotes from Jodi Picoult

Could something that looked so wrong on the outside turn out to be undeniably right? My

Must you argue everything ? Yeah. I'm a lawyer.

There are just some feelings, I've learned, for which we never invented the right words.

This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.

Perhaps he'd always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

Once, when her brothers had been fighting over who got more spaghetti for dinner, her mother had said, You don't look at another person's plate to see if they have more than you. You look to see if they have enough.

getting what you want isn't instant gratification. It's a slow pulling apart, a realignment of bones and sinew. There are aches involved. There is bruising.

sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

Is there any place on earth that smells better than a Laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mowed--comfort food for your nose.

There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.

Eis a minha opinião: não me parece que as religiões se baseiem em mentiras, mas também não me parece que se baseiem em verdades. Acho que surgem devido ao que as pessoas precisam na altura.

Given anything negative or uncertain, there were rules that had to be followed.

I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And if they did not succeed the first time, they would try over and over again, until they broke through that fifth dimension and got it right.

We may not see eye to eye, but we can respect each other's opinions and find the truth in them. Perhaps in those honest conversations, instead of demonizing each other, we might see each other as imperfect humans, doing our best. —Jodi Picoult, March 2018

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't

a story will tell itself, when it's ready.

He wandered off, leaving me to wonder why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience—names they could never live up to—and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation—crosses they'd always have to bear.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

today to find whether or not

That what one person sees as a difference of opinion can be, to the other person, a sign of great disrespect.

I suppose there's only so many times you can take being rebuffed before you need some validation.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life. —SOPHOCLES, Phaedra

Don't you wish love was so strong it could come back to haunt you?

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.